Yamatogawa

Project H's publishing practices are not terrible, just not good. The paper they print on is the same quality as your typical Manga printed in the US by the major publishers, but Project H's books cost the same as Fakku's books (and don't come with a digital copy). They will leave out whole chapters of a book if they think the content is controversial. Some of their titles are censored, just like the Japanese version (whether it is white glowing dicks, or black censor bars).

Project H has a large catalog of titles including some very well known artists and titles. The drawback is the above mentioned problems and that in the last year they have scaled back and delayed their releases. Fakku released more books in the last year than Project H and this was Fakku's first year publishing.

To be fair, Project-H has announced in their forum that they won't be cutting chapters in future releases (Cute Devil Girlfriend got a limited reprint with a missing chapter restored). They've also cut their digital release prices, and have floated the idea of higher quality print editions on their Twitter feed, so it looks like FAKKU's competition may be having an effect.

Yeah, I don't want to continue the Project H hate (them being around is a big deal, seeing as until Fakku stepped up, Project H basically filled in Studio Eros and Icarus' void), but after seeing the quality of Fakku's offerings, H falls short. They've gotten better in terms of censored art, but a lot of their earlier publishings still have white voids or black bars.

To my knowledge, they go all-out for the Yamatogawa stuff, so those at the very least are worth the effort.

The Icarus Publishing printings are still in the wild, I believe. I have Aqua Bless and Witchcraft from Icarus, and it is better paper quality and size. Project-H does have digital versions, but I haven't seen them.


That seems extremely unlikely, both by personal appearance (he looked at least mid 30s if not 40s) and experience (college grad at 22, several jobs, then eromanga), and his first work came out at least in 2006.



Project-H announced they would stop cutting chapters at AX2014, at the same time Fakku announced they would begin publishing, so they would appear to be unrelated.

In general, the issues they've had have not been because they didn't think it was a big deal, it's that publishers said "publish censored or you can't publish" and printers put limits on what they would print (a super big issue, as I'm sure Fakku can attest from their search), and Project-H went along with that because they didn't have leverage. There were uncensored exceptions, probably from rights purchased when Icarus went into the Aegean (I feel bad for making that joke).

Now they have the experience and the stability to push back and say "no, this is what our customers expect, no deal if we can't provide it." Also, Icarus printed from Taiwan, and Fakku is doing it from Hong Kong, I think (deliver already!), but Project-H is printed in Canada. If you know the censorship issues with Canada, you just winced, and realized why a chapter might go missing.

They didn't have a known userbase like Fakku did. They are not a subsidiary, but an imprint; basically publishing speak for a publisher subdividing itself to target different audiences, but the same people in charge of all of them. I don't know much about their specific situation beyond that, but the other sections don't appear to have been around very long before Project-H was created.

This is all just my take, of course, but I think it's an informed take.


That's interesting. I know I was sitting behind him, and Kamitani, the other artist Project-H invited, was with him. I pointed them out to my two friends who had also gone to the Project-H fest, but otherwise tried not to blow their cover.